Silencing Cinema [electronic resource] : Film Censorship around the World /
Biltereyst, Daniel.editor.
Winkel, Roel Vande.editor.
Oppression by censorship affects the film industry far more frequently than any other mass media. Including essays by leading film historians, the book offers groundbreaking historical research on film censorship in major film production countries and explore such innovative themes as film censorship and authorship, religion, and colonialism.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Silencing Cinema: An Introduction; Part I: Censorship, Regulation, and Hegemony; 1 All the Power of the Law: Governmental Film Censorship in the United States; 2 "American morality is not to be trifled with": Content Regulation in Hollywood after 1968; 3 When Cinema Faces Social Values: One Hundred Years of Film Censorship in Canada; 4 Inquisition Shadows: Politics, Religion, Diplomacy, and Ideology in Mexican Film Censorship; Part II: Control, Continuity, and Change
5 Film Censorship in Germany: Continuity and Change through Five Political Systems6 Seeing Red: Political Control of Cinema in the Soviet Union; 7 Prohibition, Politics, and Nation-Building: A History of Film Censorship in China; 8 Film Censorship during the Golden Era of Turkish Cinema; Part III: Colonialism, Legacy, and Policies; 9 The Censor and the State in Britain; 10 British Colonial Censorship Regimes: Hong Kong, Straits Settlements, and Shanghai International Settlement, 1916-1941; 11 "We do not certify backwards": Film Censorship in Postcolonial India
12 Irish Film Censorship: Refusing the Fractured Family of Foreign FilmsPart IV: CensorshipMultiplicity,Moral Regulation, and Experiences; 13 Nollywood, Kannywood, and a Decade of Hausa Film Censorship in Nigeria; 14 The Legion of Decency and the Movies; 15 Blessed Cinema: State and Catholic Censorship in Postwar Italy; 16 Film Censorship in a Liberal Free Market Democracy: Strategies of Film Control and Audiences' Experiences of Censorship in Belgium; Notes on Contributors; Index
Includes index.
Oppression by censorship affects the film industry far more frequently than any other mass media. Including essays by leading film historians, the book offers groundbreaking historical research on film censorship in major film production countries and explore such innovative themes as film censorship and authorship, religion, and colonialism.
Motion pictures-History.
Social history.
Motion pictures and television.
Civilization-History.
Arts.
Communication.
Film History.
Social History.
Screen Studies.
Cultural History.
Arts.
Media Studies.